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Panel Will Review U.N. Climate Work
The review aims to help the U.N. climate change panel avoid the kinds of errors that have brought its work into question in recent months, officials said Wednesday.
Categories: Climate Change
China, India give qualified nod to climate deal (AP)
Obama pushes climate change in White House meeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy policy.
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Porritt - is there the public appetite to tackle climate change?
With the traditional bad guys of the piece - government and big business - now showing signs of embracing the climate change agenda, we have to ask why there is not a surge of support from the Great British public.
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Nuclear energy gets new French-driven boost (AP)
Kenya: Financing Climate-Change Fight
The head of the International Monetary Fund proposed a plan for the world’s governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change.
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Women hit by climate change head to Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women hit hard by the effects of climate change -- drought, floods, sea level rise and crop failure -- gathered on Monday to plan a Capitol Hill push for U.S. legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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West Africa: Women Seek Role in Climate Change Campaign
Women in West Africa have called for integration of women in the global effort to arrest the adverse effect of climate change on humanity.
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Namibia: Climate Change Will Dry Up Millions
The impacts of climate change on natural resources could cost the Namibian economy between one per cent and six per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) annually over the next 20 years.
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Nigeria: Govt to Check Climate Change
Delta State has set the pace in the global actions on climate change by being the first in the country to formulate a "Climate Change Policy" aimed at mitigating and adapting to climate change.
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Africa: Facing Extreme Weather Head On, Ibrahim Forum Urges Action
Although Africa has contributed little to global warming, the continent and other parts of the developing world are bearing the brunt of the resultant climate change, according to scientists and development specialists. The question now is what to do about it before the fallout has disastrous consequences.
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Malawi: Climate Change is Changing Farming Methods
As they slept soundly on the night of Feb. 28, a family of four was killed when their house collapsed over their heads in Malawi's southern district of Chikhwawa.
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Africa: A Green Fund From the IMF, George Soros, and the Government of Mexico
On January 30 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Managing Director of the IMF, announced a possible new initiative - a multi-billion dollar Green Fund (that name is popular ? see below) that would help developing countries finance the measures needed to tackle climate change ? possibly with partial funding through issuance by the IMF of new Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).
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Nigeria: Tackling Climate Change Through Religion
The effects of climate change particularly in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly taking toll on the social and economic well-being of people of the region. Having realised these, some top faith leaders in the region have resolved to explore religion in tackling the menace.
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Nigeria: Fast Track Passage of Climate Change Bill, Don Urges National Assembly
Prof. Jimmy Adegoke, chair, Department of Geosciences, University of Missouri in the United States, has called on the National Assembly to step up the passage of a Bill to establish a commission on climate change in the country.
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The marriage of science and rainmakers
Kenyan meteorologists are joining forces with traditional rainmakers to deliver communities weather forecasts as climate change takes hold.
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Humans must be to blame for climate change, say scientists
Climate scientists have delivered a powerful riposte to their sceptical critics with a study that strengthens the case for saying global warming is largely the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases.
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G8 countries too slow in race against climate change
Berlin: Four days ahead of the G8 summit in Japan a new research examines the climate performance of G8 nations and five emerging economies, and reveals the G8 countries are lagging behind in the race against climate change.
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G8 nations lagging in climate change race
None of the leading industrialized nations are currently on target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to avoid the threshold level for unacceptable risk of catastrophic climate change, according to new research into national policies and performance.
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